...always-the sharp, plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

And when I stand in the receiving linelike Jackie Kennedywithout the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken enough Klonopinto still an ox, and you w

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.

people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.